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There have been several formal requests to investigate the 2024 election. This letter from Ray Lutz to the DOJ may be the best:
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these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos
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www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
www.alternet.org
October 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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example one
September 29, 2026 at 11:33 PM
example one
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Plus Osborn and (see the replies) Talarico bsky.app/profile/purr...
September 29, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Plus Osborn and (see the replies) Talarico bsky.app/profile/purr...
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One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
www.texastribune.org
September 29, 2026 at 3:43 AM
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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always hilarious when stuff that people insist must be a signifier of an optimistic techno-utopia turn out to just kinda suck
City officials in a Texas suburb gave Amazon approval to start a drone delivery service in December as part of the company’s new Prime Air program. But for some, the ever-droning deliveries pose the most serious threat to their private and peaceful life. trib.al/ErjQ1FU
September 26, 2026 at 12:26 AM
always hilarious when stuff that people insist must be a signifier of an optimistic techno-utopia turn out to just kinda suck
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once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real
A better way to phrase this Variety headline would be "Publicity Seeker Who Invented A Program Continues Long Con"
September 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM
once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real
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My dad was a small-town doctor who made late-night house calls on most nights I can remember growing up—and to my personal knowledge forgave (or delayed) payments from people who were on hard times.
This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing.
This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing.
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
September 25, 2026 at 3:49 PM
My dad was a small-town doctor who made late-night house calls on most nights I can remember growing up—and to my personal knowledge forgave (or delayed) payments from people who were on hard times.
This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing.
This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing.
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HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company.
Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today.
These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today.
These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
September 26, 2026 at 1:33 AM
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company.
Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today.
These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today.
These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
September 24, 2026 at 3:32 AM
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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Texas is a voter suppression state, not a red state
Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
www.votebeat.org
September 24, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Texas is a voter suppression state, not a red state
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feels like I shouldn't even have to say this, but if someone says "holy shit, something I worked on may well be caught and killed by the oligarch it's critical of," responding with "that's cool, I'll just steal it" isn't exactly a statement of heartwarming solidarity
September 23, 2026 at 7:48 PM
feels like I shouldn't even have to say this, but if someone says "holy shit, something I worked on may well be caught and killed by the oligarch it's critical of," responding with "that's cool, I'll just steal it" isn't exactly a statement of heartwarming solidarity
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can't make it up -- the Trump administration is literally rolling a red carpet out right now for President Xi
September 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
can't make it up -- the Trump administration is literally rolling a red carpet out right now for President Xi
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Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
September 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
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Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms.
The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer.
We can talk real world instead of sci fi.
We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer.
We can talk real world instead of sci fi.
We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
September 19, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms.
The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer.
We can talk real world instead of sci fi.
We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer.
We can talk real world instead of sci fi.
We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
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Who’s got the Ted Cruz footage
September 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Who’s got the Ted Cruz footage
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this somehow manages to be wilder and funnier actually hearing it. it's not some vague "boo-urns" kind of thing. it's full on "ted you suck"
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
September 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
this somehow manages to be wilder and funnier actually hearing it. it's not some vague "boo-urns" kind of thing. it's full on "ted you suck"
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similar systems were part of the mass crackdown in Xinjiang, largely in order to provide a fig-leaf of justification for arresting people for the crime of being Uyghur
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen.
The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
prospect.org
September 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
similar systems were part of the mass crackdown in Xinjiang, largely in order to provide a fig-leaf of justification for arresting people for the crime of being Uyghur
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CBC: Trump is really showing them: Mark Carney announces Canada will build $4.7 Billion worth of railroad cars in Canada rather than the US.
September 6, 2026 at 11:31 AM
CBC: Trump is really showing them: Mark Carney announces Canada will build $4.7 Billion worth of railroad cars in Canada rather than the US.
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This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
September 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
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Them too.
Snow White: The Poisoned Apple
ALT: Snow White: The Poisoned Apple
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September 1, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Them too.
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why did the mainstream media cover the deliberate abandonment of obsolete and decommissioned equipment during the Afghanistan withdrawal as a scandal for the Biden administration yet they do not cover the total destruction of US bases in the gulf by Iran as a scandal for the Trump administration?
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
August 21, 2026 at 10:21 PM
why did the mainstream media cover the deliberate abandonment of obsolete and decommissioned equipment during the Afghanistan withdrawal as a scandal for the Biden administration yet they do not cover the total destruction of US bases in the gulf by Iran as a scandal for the Trump administration?
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Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic:
August 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic:
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the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
August 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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your Tesla supports mass child death
Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.
nbcnews.to
August 16, 2026 at 7:32 PM
your Tesla supports mass child death
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it remains insane to me that Elon Musk and Trump being responsible for more death than any one else in the 21st century is just a non-story, like a total non-event in the discourse.
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
it remains insane to me that Elon Musk and Trump being responsible for more death than any one else in the 21st century is just a non-story, like a total non-event in the discourse.